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CEE Advisory Board Meetings

 

Fall 2009

Dates: October 2nd in Iowa City, IA

Adv Brd

 

 

Spring 2009

Dates: April 2-3 in Ames, Iowa.

The CEE Professional Advisory Board will be meet with the Professional Advisory Board of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department of Iowa State University.

April 2 Mtg

Joint Iowa State-University of Iowa

Civil Engineering External  Advisory Council Meeting

Thursday Dinner Agenda

 

Thursday Evening, 2 APRIL 2009

6pm – 8:30pm

  

Location

University Memorial Building – Cardinal Room

 

 

Social Hour

Meet-and-greet hospitality ice-breaker

 

 

Welcoming remarks

  • Jim Alleman, ISU-CCEE Professor  & Chair
  • Keri Hornbuckle, UI-CEE Professor  & Chair
  • Jim Bernard, ISU-COE Professor and Dean

 

 

Iowa State University

Faculty & Advisory Council

Introductions

Reg Souleyrette, Associate Chair, Professor & Division Leader and Professor

Tim Ellis, Assistant Chair (UGR Programs) & Associate Professor

Sri Sritharan, Assistant Chair (GR Programs) & Associate Professor

 

…plus Advisory Council members

 

 

University of Iowa

Faculty & Advisory Council

Introductions

 

 

…UI faculty plus Advisory Council members

 

 

Dinner

 

 

 

 

ISU Student

Organization Updates

1) ASCE

2) Chi Epsilon

3) Transportation Student Association

4) CE Undergraduate Student Advisory Council

5) Water Quality Club

 

 

 

 

 


Joint Iowa State-University of Iowa

Civil Engineering External  Advisory Council Meeting

Friday Meeting Agenda

 

Friday AM and PM, 3 APRIL 2009

8:00am – 3:00pm

 

Location

8am-3+pm

University Memorial Building – Campanile (Mtg) & Cardinal (Lunch) Rooms

 

 

 

Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:30am

Participant meet-and-greet time!! / Building tours offered if desired

 

 

 

Go-Around Introductions

8:30-8:45am

Participant self-introductions

 

 

 

ISU

Welcome & Introductions

8:45-9:00am

Jim Alleman, ISU-CCEE Professor  & Chair

              (Departmental update…to include ‘budget’ perspective)

 

 

 

UI

Welcome & Introductions

9:00- 9:15am

Keri Hornbuckle, UI-CEE Professor  & Chair

              (Departmental update…to include ‘budget’ perspective)

 

 

 

Iowa Rail Activity Overview Part-1:

ISU update…and collaboration prospects

9:15-10:00am

Tamara Nicholson, Director, Office of Rail Transportation, Iowa DOT

 

 (Note: this special update will cover Iowa intercity rail activities, including: prospective new Iowa City - Quad Cities – Chicago rail service)

 

 

 

Iowa Rail Activity Overview Part-2:

Academic update…and collaboration prospects

10:00-10:15am

Reg Souleyrette, ISU-CCEE ‘Transportation’ division leader

 

(Note: this 2nd presentation will address efforts underway within the US regarding rail engineering education, and what-if thoughts about possible ISU-UI collaboration, Union Pacific interaction status?, etc.)

 

 

 

Biobreak

10:15-10:30am

 

 

 

 

Campus Sustainability

Overviews

10:30-11:15am

Part-1:

Tag-team updates on what our universities are doing in regard to sustainable and green initiatives, including a broad look-see at what ISU and UI respectively teach in regards to sustainable topics (i.e., what courses, student levels, geographic focus, etc.)

  • Jim Alleman & Say-Kee Ong, ISU-CCEE
  • Keri Hornbuckle, UI-CEE Professor  & Chair

 

Part-2:

Open brain-storming session to hear advisory council member thoughts and recommendations about incorporating sustainable, LEED, etc. learning…into core program, capstone offerings, etc.

 

 

 

Advisory Council Member Mentoring w/ Junior Faculty

11:15-Noon

Open brain-storming session about possible mentoring collaboration between advisory council members and junior departmental faculty…on a creative what-if basis covering past, present, and possible future ideas…as to linkages which might benefit course delivery, research project brainstorming, professional networking, etc., and possibly leading to mutually beneficial integration with real-world projects.

 

 

 

Lunch

12:15-1:15pm

MU-Campanile Room

Guest Speaker – Merry Rankin New ISU Director of Sustainability

 

 

 

Split

ISU & UI

Breakout Meetings

1:30-3:45pm

University of Iowa CE Advisory Council   @ MU-Campanile Room

 

Iowa State CE Advisory Council  @ 388 Town Engineering Bldg

CE EAC Meeting

Agenda Focus Points

1:30-3:45pm

  • Specific ISU Budget updates
  • Design Integration within CE Curriculum
  • Capstone Revision Issues within CE Curriculum
  • Other?

 

 

 

 

  • Map of ISU Campus

Map of Memorial Union with meeting locations (Cardinal an Campanile Rooms)

 

 

http://www.mu.iastate.edu/img/photo/Bigger_JPG_files/SecondFlrMap.PNG

 

 

  • Hotel  -  For Hotel Reservations: BLOCK OF ROOMS HELD.  ASK FOR Civil Engineering Advisory Council
    Phone: Local Calls - (515) 296-6848 (Dial 8 on campus)
    Non-Local Calls: 1-800-433-3449
    Fax: (515) 294-1105

 

 

board april 2008 photo

April 17-18, 2008

 

 

 

 

The University of Iowa College of Engineering